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More Idiocy from Islamophobia Watch

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: January 3, 2010

Meanwhile over at Idiotphobia Watch, where comments are disallowed, Robert Pitt refers to a Telegraph article and concludes with this unforgivably stupid howler:

And this was accompanied by another article, about Anwar al-Awlaki, entitled “Detroit bomber’s mentor continues to influence British mosques and universities” – which would seem a bit unlikely if you accept the Yemeni government’s claim that he was killed in a recent air strike.

The same article that Pitt cites also contains a quote from Yemen’s deputy prime minister for defence and security affairs, Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi, in this passage:

It had been thought the extremist cleric had been killed in a Christmas Eve air strike on the house, in the southeastern Yemen province of Shabwa, but Mr al-Alimi said [al-Awlaki] is believed to be still alive.

Pitt was too busy trying to score cheap “Islamophobia” points to read the facts.

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Bob Pitt – Incorrigibly Irrational

By Yossarian | Published: August 28, 2009

Not one to quit while not-that-far-behind, Bob Pitt has decided to further discredit himself by reentering the fray over a recent articled penned by sometime guest contributor to Spittoon, Lucy James. The Spittoon has clearly got to him.

Our criticisms provoked a hostile reaction from one of the Harry’s Place wannabees who run a blog rejoicing in the name of the Spittoon, where we were accused of producing “an amateurish bit of slime” against Lucy James. I hadn’t intended to post on it here, but as the Spittoon piece is being punted around as a “comprehensive rebuttal” of our article, I think it’s necessary to place an answer on record.

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A Question of Priorities

By Yossarian | Published: August 23, 2009

Islamophobia Watch recently launched a disgraceful attack on Lucy James, author of a new paper dismantling the BNP’s attacks on Islam. As shown here at the Spittoon, their article was entirely scurrilous.

This affair made me do something which I normally avoid at all costs, read Islamophobia Watch. And when I was reading their latest nonsense I noticed something interesting. On the left hand side of Islamophobia Watch’s website is a list of categories of articles on the website.

At the very top is the category ‘Anti-Muslim violence’ whilst at the bottom of the (long) list is ‘Yusuf al-Qaradawi’. If you are unfamiliar with this name, he is the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a man who supports wife-beating and FGM and who doesn’t like Jews or innocent Israelis very much.

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Bob and Bungle – Forget the BNP, let’s attack Quilliam

By Yossarian | Published: August 20, 2009

This morning I turned on my computer and was immediately confronted by a bizarre article from Bob Pitt of Islamophobia Watch. Quilliam accuses anti-BNP protestors of ‘thuggery and hooliganism’ is an amateurish bit of slime aimed at Lucy James (who has kindly written one guest post for the Spittoon in the past) for comments she made about anti-fascist protesters in a piece for Progress Magazine.

She wrote,

Last weekend the BNP’s annual shindig ‘Red, White and Blue’ took place in a small town in Derbyshire. Reports said that the number of attendees was only marginally more than the number of anti-fascist protesters who congregated outside the gate. Unfortunately, these anti-BNP protesters soon became violent – leading to a total of 19 protesters being arrested. Although it is good to see ordinary people protesting against the BNP, such protests become ineffective when they descend into thuggery and hooliganism. Just a week earlier, for example, violent clashes erupted between the English Defence League and Unite Against Fascism in Birmingham, leading to bottles, sticks and banners thrown, and brought police in riot gear onto the streets.

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Islamophobia Watch – Dimwit Unlimited

By Yossarian | Published: August 3, 2009

Islamophobia Watch have found another less-than-worthwhile cause to throw their “might” behind – defending global Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir from their critics.

In reality, Hizb ut-Tahrir is a peaceful if highly sectarian organisation that poses no threat whatsoever to the people of East London. But what can you expect from the Tories, given that David Cameron is on record as calling for HT to be made illegal?

Needless to say, Cameron isn’t calling for a ban on the far-right British National Party, even though no HT members have been convicted of the sort of violent crimes that BNP members have. Clearly the Tories apply different standards to white fascists than they do to brown Islamists.

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